The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood... Anti-injunction Bill: Complete Hearings Before the Committee on the ... - Stran 586avtor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1904 - 674 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 strani
...decided that such a bank was constitutional. His position, as stated in his veto message, was that "each public officer, who takes an oath to support the constitution, swears tliat he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The high political... | |
| Henry C. Lockwood - 1884 - 504 strani
...to- fall, before the American people, the veto message, lie holds the following language : ' iCach public officer, who takes an oath to support the Constitution,...support it as he understands it, and not as it is Senate passed condemnatory resolutions, and the President protested. He wished the protest placed on... | |
| Johns Hopkins University - 1885 - 606 strani
...authorities of this Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court, must each for itself, be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public...President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any hill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the Supreme... | |
| James Gillespie Blaine - 1886 - 778 strani
...Bill, when he declared that " The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." But without approving the extreme doctrine which General Jackson announced with the applause of his... | |
| Carl Schurz - 1887 - 416 strani
...1811. It was in overruling the Supreme Court that Jackson in the veto uttered the famous sentence : " Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." The arrival of the veto in the Senate was the signal for a grand explosion of oratory. Webster opened... | |
| Hermann Von Holst - 1888 - 740 strani
...give a binding interpretation of the constitution in such questions. In the veto-message, lie says: "Each public officer who takes an oath to support...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." This was unquestionably correct in relation to open questions, but it was just as unquestionably incorrect... | |
| James Schouler - 1889 - 590 strani
...Executive, and the court must each for itself bo guided by its own opinion of the constitution. Hach public officer who takes an oath to support the constitution...understands it, and not as it is understood by others." If, was the natural reply, every one in authority is to construe the law privately for himself, and... | |
| Sir Henry Parkes - 1890 - 216 strani
...I am quoting from the message of the President conveying his veto on one of their Bills. He says : Each public officer who takes an oath to support the...understands it, and not as it is understood by others. Daniel Webster among others strongly condemned the .President, and thus spoke of it at the time : —... | |
| Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 strani
...each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each pnblic ollicrr, who takes nn oath to support the Constitution, swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not oa it is understood by others. It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate,... | |
| Hampton Lawrence Carson - 1892 - 472 strani
...authorities of this government. The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public...he understands it, and not as it is understood by others."1 1 The question whether the Departments of the Government are independent of each other, and... | |
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